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Laila Gide

Organisation: THALES

Position in the organisation: Advanced Studies Europe Director

Biography note: Prof. Biography note: Laila Gide (Advanced Studies Director Europe) reports directly to Thales CTO within the THALES Strategy, Research and Technology Directorate THALES, for coordinating THALES externally funded research through the Civil and European funding organisation. She is member of the Group Technical Board.

She is active in the European R&D funding since 2002, and represents THALES interest in several trade associations: • ASD: Aerospace and Defence Association: the Security Commission Policy Group and the Security Research Committee. • IMGS: Integrated Mission Group for Security: member of the steering group • GIFAS: member of the security commission • ITEA: board member

She represents Thales in a number of ETPs and PPPs initiated within FP7 and confirmed in H2020, mainly the ETPs Net!Works, NESSI, EPoSS, ISI, and Photonics 21, as well as the Institutional PPPs ENIAC, ARTEMIS, as Thales is one the five founding members. For ARTEMIS, she is member of Steering Board and of ARTEMIS JU IRC where she chairs the WG Strategic Research Agenda that delivered the ARTEMIS SRAs (2006, 2011, and 2013). Through her career, she gained experience in positions as technology transfer, industrial operation, and quality director.

Presentation:

Parallel Workshop Session W2.6 – “ARTEMIS SRA”

Embedded Systems technology (ES) is a recognised crucial key enabling technology for the development of innovative products and service, consolidating Europe’s economical growth, jobs creation and competitiveness on international market.

ARTEMIS is a unique programme succeeding in few years to build self-sustaining eco-systems and set ES largest R&D projects for safety- critical, high reliability systems for multi-domain compatibility and interoperability.

Cyber-Physical Systems are entering a new era serving societal and economical challenges. ARTEMIS targets focus its R&D on exploiting the ubiquity of the CPS, the neural system linking physical world and sharing networks, optimising the Technology Time to Market/Technology Time on Market, mastering complexity, reducing cost and power consumption, and increasing performance.